GPlates runs on Windows, Linux and
MacOS X. We provide ready-to-use binary executables for both
Windows and MacOS X, enabling a GPlates user to download, install and use the
latest version of GPlates immediately. The binaries also include the
GPlates-compatible data described below.

For Windows, we provide a .msibinary
installer. Running this installer program will install GPlates on
your system. We also provide a .zip file, containing the GPlates executable
and its dependency files, for users who wish to use GPlates without installing it.

For MacOS X, we provide a 64-bit bundle for
Snow Leopard (10.6) or above in a single .dmg file.
To install GPlates, simply:

double-click on a .dmg file to open the disk image in
Finder

drag the GPlates binary into your Applications folder.

For Ubuntu, we provide .debpackages
for 64 and 32-bit architectures. To install GPlates, simply download the
appropriate package for your system and double-click to install.

If you are using a different Linux distribution please use the source code package.

The Ubuntu packages currently contain the sample data (in /usr/share/gplates/) along with the application - future releases may use separate packages for this.

We provide source-code packages for Windows (the winsrc
zip-files) and Linux and MacOS X (the unixsrc tarballs). The
source-code packages contain simple sample data, but the larger data files
(described below) will need to be downloaded separately. To compile GPlates
from source, you will require:

Download GPlates-compatible data

A sample set
of these data-files are also contained within the GPlates installation packages, and will be
automatically installed with GPlates. Thanks to the EarthByte Project for
making these data-files available!

a sequence of time-dependent global dynamic topography raster images,
created by Bernhard Steinberger at NGU

These data-files are also contained within the GPlates installation packages, and will be
automatically installed with GPlates. Thanks to Bernhard Steinberger and the
Geodynamics Team for making these data-files available!